Bethan Darwin
Bethan qualified in 1990 and specialises in employment law, boardroom law and corporate work. She has particular expertise in acting for directors and senior executives including non executive director contracts and share options. She has a portfolio of angel investor clients whom she advised on their angel investments, which often also includes their appointment as non-executive director. She also advises on Corporate Law, advising on the sale and purchase of companies, taking and raising investment, management buy outs and buy ins and shareholder agreements. In 2023 a buy in management buy out transaction on which Bethan and her colleague Sarah Bell worked won Insider's Dealmaker's Awards Small Business Deal of the Year.
She is one of the best-known employment lawyers in Cardiff and is ranked in both Legal 500 and Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession for employment law in South Wales.
She was one of the Lawyer magazine’s Hot 100 in 2010. She writes a column once a month on employment law for the Western Mail called Law and More – click here to read her latest columns
Bethan is a fluent Welsh speaker and often appears on local radio and television, commenting on employment law issues in both Welsh and English. She is always happy to advise through the medium of Welsh.
Bethan previously helped found another Cardiff law firm, which she left in 2013 to join her husband David Thompson at Thompson Darwin under its former name Commercial Conclusion.
Bethan’s profile for Twitter reads:
Lawyer, organiser of Superwoman, novelist, past chair IWA, proud mum and wife, Rhondda raised, siarad Cymraeg, loves Barry Island. High hopes.